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Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse
Archaeology

Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The more genetic history that is done, the more it is clear that ancient ethnonyms, the names given supposed ethnicities, […]

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

08/24/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

08/24/2025 By The Conversation

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Israel/ Palestine
What Is Joe Biden’s Israel Policy, Exactly?

What Is Joe Biden’s Israel Policy, Exactly?

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – So just what is the Biden administration’s policy towards Israel? Why did Biden take so long to respond to […]

Phyllis Bennis

Climate Crisis
Int'l Energy Agency: We must Ban new Fossil Fuels Now to avoid Overheating our Earth

Int’l Energy Agency: We must Ban new Fossil Fuels Now to avoid Overheating our Earth

By Volker Roeben | – Established in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis, the International Energy Agency (IEA) was created to maintain the stability […]

The Conversation

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Israel's Pyrrhic Victory: It Razed some buildings, but Reinforced Palestinian National Identity

Israel’s Pyrrhic Victory: It Razed some buildings, but Reinforced Palestinian National Identity

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel and Hamas agreed on an unconditional ceasefire to begin at 2 am on Friday morning, which both sides put […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Issue isn't Self-Defense, it is Occupation and Statelessness:  Juan Cole interviewed by Steve Clemons, "The Bottom Line"

The Issue isn’t Self-Defense, it is Occupation and Statelessness: Juan Cole interviewed by Steve Clemons, “The Bottom Line”

“While unquestioning support for Israel is still the name of the game in Washington, DC, a growing number of Democrats are demanding political rights for […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Did Gaza change the world's perspective on  Palestine-Israel?

Did Gaza change the world’s perspective on Palestine-Israel?

By Mamoun Fandy | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – In what looks to be a brave new world, even as its features are […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Antarctica is headed for a climate tipping point by 2060, with catastrophic melting if carbon emissions aren't cut quickly

Antarctica is headed for a climate tipping point by 2060, with catastrophic melting if carbon emissions aren’t cut quickly

By Julie Brigham-Grette and Andrea Dutton | – While U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken draws attention to climate change in the Arctic at meetings […]

The Conversation

Green Energy
The Good News with Green Energy is the end of Struggles for Oil; the Bad news?  Struggle for Lithium

The Good News with Green Energy is the end of Struggles for Oil; the Bad news? Struggle for Lithium

(Tomdispatch.com ) – Thanks to its very name — renewable energy — we can picture a time in the not-too-distant future when our need for […]

Michael T. Klare

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With 58K Palestinians Made Homeless in Gaza, AOC and the Squad Resolve to Block Precision Bombs for Israel

With 58K Palestinians Made Homeless in Gaza, AOC and the Squad Resolve to Block Precision Bombs for Israel

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations says that 58,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been made internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the past week […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
How Pro-Israel Sentiment took Hold in Japan’s Conservative Government

How Pro-Israel Sentiment took Hold in Japan’s Conservative Government

Tokyo (Special to Informed Comment) – The recent flareup of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has revealed the degree to which pro-Israel sentiment has crept into the […]

Michael Penn

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